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by sirpunch 3y ago
Bobby Jindal is an Indian American born to immigrant parents from Punjab, India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal
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by sirpunch 3y ago
I can attest to this with N=1 datapoint here. My best friend postponed having kids till they could afford a SFH, but kept pushing it further as the supply dwindled and rates shot up (tier-1 city residents). I can imagine how the number of p
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Not sure why you're making it sound like a conspiracy theory. User behavior profiling is common strategy for all personalized IR products, including recommender systems, targeted ads, web search, e-commerce, and many more. A bunch of m
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by sirpunch 3y ago
I absolutely love Instagram app and my friend circle actively uses it. I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but I come back to Facebook groups and marketplace fairly frequently. What's your metric to measure this general propensity? DAU
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by sirpunch 3y ago
I find it fascinating how much Meta's business and HN sentiment towards anything Meta are mutually exclusive.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
You could say the same thing about every big company. Apple has headwinds from sales in China and US-China trade wars, Tesla is trailing BYD and seeing declining EV demand, and so on. Every large company has something or the other going on.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
This HN bandwagon again. Meta has had an astounding yoy growth. Did you even see their Q4 report.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
One US & Canada user is worth 3x a European user and 15x ROW (rest of the world) user to Facebook. Source: ARPU from Meta's Q4'23 earnings announcement.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
HN users have long been calling Facebook a dead platform because none of their contacts are there. Yet FB has 130M dau in north America. Threads will be fine too.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy has had a measurable impact on businesses that rely on ads for their sales. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698374
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by sirpunch 3y ago
IMO it does provide a better user experience. It gets to the end goal quickly by giving you a list of places directly in the Maps app. You can see how far each place is and if you really wanna go to that part of the town from a bird's
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Apple's ATT privacy policy reduced orders and revenue for Shopify merchants(papers.ssrn.com)
4 points by sirpunch 3y ago|1 comments
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Not a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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Police alert residents of stalkers using Apple AirTags for malicious tracking(komonews.com)
3 points by sirpunch 3y ago|1 comments
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Good point. Although I'd also say that the barrier to entry for content producers is somewhat higher for App Store. You'd likely need some level of computer science education and their review process also takes longer and is contr
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Apple doesn't really have experience with building a platform for user generated content. Sure, they have the technological might, but content moderation, recommendation fairness, ad monetization, etc. are different beasts and usually
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by sirpunch 3y ago
Do your kids not use TikTok as well?
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by sirpunch 3y ago
There are also a bunch of recent immigrants on threads like these who have the 'close the door after me' mindset. They also support hard restrictions on immigration, as soon as they get the green card or citizenship.
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by sirpunch 3y ago
I do literature reviews for Information Retrieval domain (Recommender Systems, Search and Ranking, etc.). https://blog.reachsumit.com/
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Specialized Deep Learning Architectures for Time Series Forecasting(blog.reachsumit.com)
5 points by sirpunch 4y ago|0 comments
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Zero and Few Shot Text Retrieval and Ranking Using Large Language Models(blog.reachsumit.com)
2 points by sirpunch 4y ago|0 comments
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by sirpunch 4y ago
> "TikTok can employ them in a less competitive labour market and not fight companies like Google which don’t operate in China." Is this really true though? I imagine the market for SDEs in china is much more competitive and cu
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by sirpunch 4y ago
USA has it too. Amazon Software Engineers can't keep their 401K company match if they leave the company before completing 3 years of service.
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by sirpunch 4y ago
I hope people don't make the assumption that anything that's not coming from Google is harmful and a potential adware/malware. People who support Apple's app store monopoly also use the same logic. Maybe the Indian gover
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by sirpunch 4y ago
Last time I tried Sumatrapdf I couldn't find a good way to quickly turn dark mode on/off, or keep a sidebar that showed me all of my annotations inline, or make 'popup note' annotations. Has any of it changed now?
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Understanding the Sliding Window Pattern(blog.reachsumit.com)
2 points by sirpunch 5y ago|0 comments
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by sirpunch 5y ago
Do you know about the 1point3acrea forum for LeetCode-based interview preparation. I was told by a friend to check it out as they have an extensive set of tips, tricks and general suggestions. Their forums and posts seem to be mostly in Man
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by sirpunch 5y ago
This subreddit is gold. Thanks for sharing.
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by sirpunch 6y ago
> ".. Or about attacks that have nothing to do with the U.S. one way or the other." Some recent ones that e remember seeing in the news: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-03-01/
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by sirpunch 6y ago
I mean the insert and delete operations with axis value set to 0.

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